In school it tends to be much easier to meet people and make friends
especially as you progress through programs together. When you get to
the working world, it's said, it's a lot harder to make new friends.

Anyway, I was wondering: do you think it's different friending bosses or
coworkers while in school versus in the working world?

For those of you in school, do you keep or do you think you'll keep your
circles separate more after school is over?

Do you keep your online profiles open to anyone you know or are you more
restrictive about who sees your information?

My current job and previous job I haven't really added any friends on
facebook. There are people I'd like to be friends with, but I want it to
come more naturally. If it doesn't happen, then there's really no point
to connecting with them online. I had a coworker once who didn't connect
with any coworkers on facebook as a general rule, but then we became
really close and she changed her feelings a bit. We don't work together
anymore, but we are still friends on facebook and we talk often.

In college I kept my facebook more private so if you searched for my
name, my profile would not come up. This was because I had a lot of
awkward interactions where guys in particular would ask if I had a
facebook and want to add me as a friend, but I was not interested in
what they were after. In order to make it less uncomfortable in the
moment, I would say yes I do and then we would go our separate ways with
me knowing they wouldn't be able to find me and I wouldn't have to deal
with them again.

I only do this if I was friends with the coworker outside of work before
either they or myself worked together. Otherwise, it just doesn't seem
appropriate. I like to keep my professional life and personal life
fairly separate!

It depends on the work environment. When I worked at Chipotle and this
little Mexican restaurant, I friended coworkers from those places, but I
haven't friended more recent coworkers in the school district where I
substitute teach or coworkers from the kayak company I worked for over
the summer (although I wouldn't feel as weird friending them). I guess I
default to friending people from more informal workplaces that aren't a
part of my main career path.

Hey! I usually don’t add coworkers on social media. I try to keep
it professional. If they add me, most of the time I’ll add them
but only if we’re actually friends at work. I don’t want
people to creep on me and try to get dirt on me.

When I was working in a frozen yogurt shop, I friended most of my
co-workers because we were all college students. Now that I'm working at
an office at my school, it feels a bit different/weirder friending my
co-workers (mostly because they're my supervisors), but I still accept
their friend requests if they decide to. Whereas my actual co-workers
are students, so it doesn't feel weird friending them!

I used to friend coworkers until the 2016 election. Then I found out
that one of my coworkers and I had extreme political differences.
Although he wasn't my boss, he held a higher position in the company
than I did. I couldn't bring myself to agree with anything he had to
say and I felt as though I had to pull my punches in arguing with him.
So I unfollowed him, apologized for upsetting him and reminded him no
matter who is president, we still need to work together. After that, I
will not friend anyone I need to work with.

We work with people in order to succeed in business. As long as they
are good at what they do and the two of you can collaborate, their
personal life does not matter. If Hitler could play the drums well, I
might hire him for a gig, but I wouldn't want to be friends. My
coworker and I used to exchange personal news, how's the wife and kids
and that sort of thing. Now, it's just work.

Believe it or not I do not have a facebook, instagram or tweeter
account. I have been reluctant to create any just because of the
accessibility people have. I do understand the value of having these
kind of accounts and how it connects you to others.

My fiancé has a facebook account and I generally go on his
account to view any "family" things that are going on,
especially pictures of events, etc.